{"id":338,"date":"2010-07-22T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=338"},"modified":"2010-07-22T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:23:01","slug":"preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview made available for Star Trek Online&#8217;s Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/sci-fi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sci-fi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/patches\/\" rel=\"tag\">Patches<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/previews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Previews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/news-items\/\" rel=\"tag\">News items<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/star-trek-online\/\" rel=\"tag\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.massively.com\/media\/2010\/07\/sto-season2-epl-713.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/Season-1\/\">Season 1<\/a> patch for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><em>Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a> pushed forward huge improvements to the game&#8217;s engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/Season-2\/\">Season 2<\/a> looks to expand into several areas players have complained were lacking. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/Cryptic\/\">Cryptic<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/season_two\">just released a preview page<\/a> detailing several additions, including added Klingon PvE play and six additional levels. The new levels let players reach the coveted rank of Vice Admiral in the Federation and Lieutenant General in the Klingon Empire, bringing improved versions of Tier 5 ships to coincide with the new maximum ranks. While it&#8217;s not explicitly stated, it&#8217;s implied that the new ships won&#8217;t be mandatory upgrades, but rather options for players who want to fly some of the most iconic ships in the franchise&#8217;s long history.<\/p>\n<p>Even with no other additions, the changes would bring new aspects of play, but the update also sees the launch of the Federation Diplomatic Corps (a separate leveling track of negotiation and social interaction) and a new minigame associated with anomaly scanning. Currently a passive form of resource gathering, scanning will be changed into a simple wave-matching game to help gather additional resources &#8212; making it somewhat more interesting than walking to a node and pressing a button. That&#8217;s still not getting into the special weekly content due to start arriving in August&#8230; there&#8217;s a good reason Cryptic has made a large page to summarize it at a glance. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/Star-Trek-Online\/\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/season_two\">second major patch<\/a> is targeted to hit later this month, with <a href=\"http:\/\/westkarana.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/10\/sto-how-to-choose-your-dabo-girl\/\">a first impression from testing<\/a> available from <a href=\"http:\/\/westkarana.com\/\">West Karana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/media\/feedlogo.gif\" alt=\"Massively\" style=\"float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/14\/preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2\/\">Preview made available for Star Trek Online&#8217;s Season 2<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\">Massively<\/a> on Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/season_two>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/14\/preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/forward\/19553026\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/14\/preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/14\/preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2\/\">Massively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sci-fi, Patches, Previews, News items, Star Trek Online If the Season 1 patch for Star Trek Online pushed forward huge improvements to the game&#8217;s engine, Season 2 looks to expand into several areas players have complained were lacking. Cryptic has just released a preview page detailing several additions, including added Klingon PvE play and six additional levels. The new levels let players reach the coveted rank of Vice Admiral in the Federation &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/preview-made-available-for-star-trek-onlines-season-2\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289],"tags":[45,116,293,297,294,247,248],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}